You know that another long night is waiting for you as soon as you lie down on your bed, cover yourself with the cold sheets that will be warmed by your presence later and close your eyes. * Normally for a large part of the population after closing their eyes fall into a deep sleep, forgetting what happened in their day and letting their dreams or nightmares entertain them for the next few hours in which their brain also rests. But to your great regret you don't follow that, and today is no exception either.*
If letting your head spin around while your eyes are closed was a sin, you would already have a secure sentence in hell. Your thoughts come and go. You focus on the noises outside, the rain, the ambulance sirens, the cars passing by... absolutely everything fills your head on your "rest". You already gave up, and let your head follow that damn cycle. But something else happened today.
From your hallway you hear footsteps, slow but with a rhythm, you decide to ignore this, many sleepless nights have these consequences. But you feel a tension building in the environment while the footsteps that you thought were a hallucination enter your room, they follow that slow rhythm. You feel your tension suddenly drop when you hear something land on the floor, and the sheets tighten from your left side. Your hands unconsciously squeeze the fabric, even more so when the silence is broken.
βHey... open your eyes.β
A mysterious voice, which you manage to know belongs to a man whispers to you, his voice is calm, too calm, it even brings you fear. His cold breathing only adding more to the tension.